Dominique Larkin
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Dominique Larkin
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreit is told that there is a place in the desert where the spirit of women and the spirit of wolves meet across time.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The past and the future were two places I had no business being. The only thing that mattered was right now. And right now…well, I still felt like shit.
Lucy Score • Things We Never Got Over
How you introduce yourself could be a sacred distillation of your reality, talent, and deepest interest. Yep—all that in just a sentence or two.
Danielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is
... See moreNoah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Obsession is a skeleton key, hidden in the walls of your psyche by your 10-year-old self. There is a core game, a core activity, a core compulsion, all of us are designed for. We can't control it. We can't stop it. All we can do, is direct it. Some love to read. Some love to run. Some love to write. Some love to design. Some love to build. Some... See more
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Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mates, and their pack. They are
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